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(The Arrival movie was based on) Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

The Book Pile

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The Pros and Cons of Discrimination

If you had all the physical pleasures you ever wanted and still found reasons to complain? Alright, lesson two. If you could turn off beauty, would you? So Kellen already mentioned this one. Listeners, if you haven't read the book, picture this: Someone comes to you in the future and says, look, we as humans discriminate against ugly people. Would you use that technology? And Kellen, first, I want to know, would you use it?

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